Hey guys. I'm wiring an ib5 for a mate, but I can only get one pup to work at a time. Basically I wire the bridge to a lug and it works, but neck won't work when soldered to the other output lug, then I switch the lugs and the neck will work and bridge won't. As it's a stereo jack, do I need a stereo lead?
Don't know how you've got your pots wired up, but a stereo barrel jack should be wired the same as a regular mono jack. One ground and one hot. So, there will be three lugs, but you only want to use two.
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Yep but by doing that if I kill the volume on the neck or bridge, it kills the other. The pbg diagram has one earth and each hot from the pots to each one of the Jack lugs. With a standard mono cable, only the pup wired to shortest lug works, whether it's Bridge or neck.
Sounds like some funkiness in the wiring before the jack and that diagram is wrong then. A mono cable can only get signal from one of those lugs. I think Wierdbits is gonna be the go to guy once again.
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Yeah man. I have a stereo headphone adaptor that I plugged into the bass, then a stereo lead to the aux in of my amp and both pups worked as they should. From all the ibanez control layouts I looked at, there was more often a blend pot instead of dedicated volume for each pup which would allow a mono out. So it'd be master volume, blend, dedicated tones.
Yeah, that's odd. Just looked at the diagram, I'm positive that both the hot leads should go to one lug, but that doesn't explain the volume pot killing the other pickup.
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Hey Andrew, I've recently helped Dennis wire his IB5 and the PBG needs correcting. The stereo jack should have one connection to hot and earth and one shouldn't be used, unless as you say you used a stereo jack.
I found another diagram ages ago I used for my IB5 but not happy with it.
If I get time I'll look for a better diagram, but Weirdy may be able to knock you up a diagram for 2 vol, 2 tone, no switch and stereo output jack
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Ok sweet thanks Wokka. Yeah both pups to the shortest lug worked, but if you turn down a volume pot fully, it kills both pups.
yeah I've been meaning to tell Brendan the PBG diagram is wrong. Good chance our best mate Weirdy will see this thread and come up with a suitable diagram. I did a quick google search for 2 vol, 2 tone, no switch, stereo jack and not much came up, but you could use the diagram attached and treat neck and bridge pups separately as the diagram then link the hot tip wires
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Thanks mate. Only drama is because both pups are on the same output with no switch, when u kill a volume pot, it sends the signal to ground. As both pups are on the same output, it'll still kill both.
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